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1985 15' center console
surfskating	#1  Posted on 02/27/13 - 10:05 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 18 Comments: 1 Joined: 04/07/07	I just picked up a 15' Center Console through Govliqiuidation.com. I ended up buying the hull for $480! I was so excited to pick it up as this was my biggest whaler yet. Coming from a 9' i guess anything is bigger. After loading it up i notice that it was a Red dot. I'm now in the process of filling all the old fitting holes and prepping it to re gel coat it. Any one compared hull weights between red dot and non red dot? http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b28...titled.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b28...hoto12.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b28...tled-1.png Id like it to end up looking as clean as my nine. http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b28...2344-1.jpg Edited by surfskating on 02/27/13 - 10:17 PM
Bake	#2  Posted on 02/28/13 - 12:28 AM
Member Personal Page Project Albums Posts: 902 Comments: 8 Joined: 01/30/06	I can not answer your question on the weight of the hull. I just wanted to comment that judging by your 9 footer the 15 will be a thing of beauty when you are done.
jamesgt727	#3  Posted on 03/26/13 - 10:46 PM
Member Personal Page Project Albums Posts: 360 Comments: 0 Joined: 01/17/11	Boy I remember my 15 acquisition day, I happen to have a 9' tender too! My 15 is "almost" done. I wish you luck in the resto! Please post photos. Let me know if you need any 15 advice!
surfskating	#4  Posted on 03/26/13 - 11:06 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 18 Comments: 1 Joined: 04/07/07	Thanks! I'll try and some up soon. I've been posting my progress on bloody decks. Check it out . Let me know what you think. http://www.bdoutdoors.com/forums/check-out-my-boat/485833-15-boston-whaler-rebirth.html
jamesgt727	#5  Posted on 03/26/13 - 11:17 PM
Member Personal Page Project Albums Posts: 360 Comments: 0 Joined: 01/17/11	Really nice project, check mine out on my personal page link, let me know what you think, we just molded new floors today. It's a 1987 15 Sport we nicknamed Black Max
surfskating	#6  Posted on 03/27/13 - 8:52 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 18 Comments: 1 Joined: 04/07/07	I really like the wood rails matched with the dark hull. Is that a blue or black? How did you make your decks? What are you doing for a console? I ended up sanding off the non skid and mixing gelcoat with cabosil and rolling them on. It turned out pretty nice! I got the idea from this site http://www.goodoldboat.com/pdfs/Redo_your_non-skid.pdf.
surfskating	#7  Posted on 03/27/13 - 8:57 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 18 Comments: 1 Joined: 04/07/07	Just saw your bench seats nice!
jamesgt727	#8  Posted on 03/27/13 - 12:33 PM
Member Personal Page Project Albums Posts: 360 Comments: 0 Joined: 01/17/11	Thanks, the hull is Orca Black
huckelberry145	#9  Posted on 03/27/13 - 1:47 PM
Member Posts: 401 Comments: 3 Joined: 03/10/12	James, awsome job on the boat. The wood rubrail is a trip :-)
barefootin	#10  Posted on 03/27/13 - 6:50 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 16 Comments: 0 Joined: 01/21/13	Same year / model as mine. Best of luck with it. Enjoy!
Binkie	#11  Posted on 03/28/13 - 9:41 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 2012 Comments: 0 Joined: 12/19/05	How did you bend the mahogany for the rubrail. I have bent oak by steaming it. Will mahogany bend like that? rich
jamesgt727	#12  Posted on 03/28/13 - 11:12 AM
Member Personal Page Project Albums Posts: 360 Comments: 0 Joined: 01/17/11	It's cut and carved from a big piece of mahogany. The rub rail is five pcs total, it was never bent. The shipwright, fit every pc by hand. It's being built by a professional "shipwright". I stress that...because I was told not to call him a carpenter or a "wood guy" when we were introduced! (Inside joke). It's getting wrapped with 1" SS with little harpoons. Pretty cool in person. SOrry to get off topic...Sweet boat Surfskating...I will monitor the progress BD site. Did you test for hull water? Some of your early photos show some classic signs, were you able to weigh the bare hull? Edited by jamesgt727 on 03/28/13 - 3:44 PM
surfskating	#13  Posted on 03/28/13 - 6:45 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 18 Comments: 1 Joined: 04/07/07	I did and the only place i found some was where the bench seats mounted. it was moist so i let it air dry for a few days and scraped out the foam that had moisture. I drilled a hole in the transom and it was dry. I bought it in the high desert which was a plus. Its a Red Dot hull so i don't think the weight will match up with a standard hull. It took 4 guys to flip and lift it onto the trailer. I tried really hard to find soft spots and wasn't able to. Its built like a brick sh*t house...
jamesgt727	#14  Posted on 03/28/13 - 7:08 PM
Member Personal Page Project Albums Posts: 360 Comments: 0 Joined: 01/17/11	Great news, mine was a trailer stored outdoor boat, some "mo" installed a troll motor on the bow without sealing the holes, and cut a 6" port hole to wire it. I spent weeks drying the hull. I wish I would have known about those heavier duty hulls like yours, I would have searched harder. The standard one like mine is a little wimpy, compared to the gel, glass, and transom thickness of my other similar boat. Keep them photos coming!
CES	#15  Posted on 03/29/13 - 9:14 AM
Member Personal Page Photo Albums Project Albums Posts: 2681 Comments: 7 Joined: 04/27/07	When's the water test??? Also...no video, no proof....then it really didn't happen. Lol... Post of a video too when she runs for the first time! Edited by CES on 03/29/13 - 9:15 AM Cliff 1966 13' Sport with a 1993 40hp Yamaha 2 Smoker
Binkie	#16  Posted on 03/29/13 - 10:18 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 2012 Comments: 0 Joined: 12/19/05	OK, I should have looked at all your pics before I made that post. I saw it was cut from wide pieces and not bent. I replaced a rotted oak stem on a boat by putting the cut piece of oak in a galvanized pipe full of water with some small holes in the top and setting the tube in a fire, and boiling the water. the oak came out very flexable until it cooled. I don't know if mahogany would bend like that. Maybe your shipwright can tell you. Carpenters who built planked wooden boats are on the top of the heap when it comes to carpenters. They are mostly all gone now. I worked as an apprentice carpenter during the summers for a wooden boatbuilder on Long Island in the late '50's. I mostly swept up sawdust and carried wood planks. I did learn a couple of things, though. Then fiberglass boats became popular, The rest is history, funny, the wooden builders though it was a fad,----at first, then jumped into the game.
wing15601	#17  Posted on 03/29/13 - 12:14 PM
Member Posts: 699 Comments: 0 Joined: 07/14/12	Here is a link to a small sailboat I built. The rails are mahogany, two 8 foot pieces scarfed together and glued with epoxy thickened with cabosil. They were placed onto the boat over a period of about 2.5 days and left clamped in place for a week to take a set, before gluing and screwing, again using epoxy thickened with cabosil. If you take your time you can bend mahogany about this much. but any more I would steam it well. (actually boil it.) http://s1341.photobucket.com/albums/o759/wing15601/?action=view¤t=b9a0a4413964c40ce42c2c3f73b4e3ae_zps7dc3ae3c.jpg&evt=user_media_share I winter in Ft. Myers and summer in St. Joseph, Michigan. It’s now about 12 years since I’ve joined this group. I gave my 1972 whaler to my daughter and sold the 17’. Bought an O’Day 28 sailboat and sailed on Lake Michigan. Yesterday I bought a 2005 130 Sport.
Binkie	#18  Posted on 03/30/13 - 5:05 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 2012 Comments: 0 Joined: 12/19/05	http://s1341.photobucket.com/albums/o...edia_share
Binkie	#19  Posted on 03/30/13 - 5:10 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 2012 Comments: 0 Joined: 12/19/05	very nice job on the sailboat. I think the front corners would be the only problem with the Whaler. rich
jamesgt727	#20  Posted on 04/02/13 - 7:41 AM
Member Personal Page Project Albums Posts: 360 Comments: 0 Joined: 01/17/11	surfskating, how the project coming along?